Re: config to use gnome-keyring

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jethro Tull <[email protected]> wrote:
> gnome-keyring through secret-tool works with a label and pairs of attributes
> and values to store a password. I'm already using it to make email account
> passwords accessible by msmtp. Setting up getmail to use gnome-keyring would
> create a new keyring and the content would be the same as for the previous
> keyring. It would be more convenient that getmail also uses the label and the
> corresponding pair to retrieve a password from gnome-keyring.

getmail doesn't use a new keyring; it uses the default keyring and asks for a
secret by user, server name, and protocol.  If your keyring has the password
stored under those attributes, it should work.

Charles
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